. Elementary botany [microform]. Botany; Botanique. lU ERICACE^. Ktt i' ,i'|;,|! 1 :i. 1. L. latifolium, Ait. Erect, 1-3° high; leaves oblong or linear-oblong (1-2' long), mostly |' wide, very obtuse; stamens 6-7; capsule oblong, acutish,—Lab. to Pac, and northward, in cold bogs and mountain woods. 9. CHIMAPHILA, Pursh. Pipsissewa. Petals 5, concave, orbicular, widely spreading. Stamens 10; filaments enlarged and hairy in the middle; anthers as in Pyrola, but more or less conspicuously 2-horned. Style very short, inverse- ly conical, nearly immersed in the depressed summit of the globular ovar
. Elementary botany [microform]. Botany; Botanique. lU ERICACE^. Ktt i' ,i'|;,|! 1 :i. 1. L. latifolium, Ait. Erect, 1-3° high; leaves oblong or linear-oblong (1-2' long), mostly |' wide, very obtuse; stamens 6-7; capsule oblong, acutish,—Lab. to Pac, and northward, in cold bogs and mountain woods. 9. CHIMAPHILA, Pursh. Pipsissewa. Petals 5, concave, orbicular, widely spreading. Stamens 10; filaments enlarged and hairy in the middle; anthers as in Pyrola, but more or less conspicuously 2-horned. Style very short, inverse- ly conical, nearly immersed in the depressed summit of the globular ovary; stigma broad and orbicular, disk-shaped, the border 6-crenate. Capsule, etc., as in Pyrola, but splitting from the apex downward, the edges of the valves not woolly.—Low, nearly herba- ceous plants, with long running underground shoots, and evergreen thick and shining leaves, somewhat whorled or scattered along the short ascending stems; the fragrant (white or purplish) flowers corymbed or umbelled on a terminal peduncle. (Name from x^'i^f^fi, winter, and (pueu, to love, in allusion to one of the popular names, viz., Wintergreen.) 1. C. umbellata, Nutt. Prince's Pine. Pipsissewa. Leafy, 4-10' high; leaves wedge-lanceolate, sharply serrate, not spotted; peduncles 4-7-flowered; petals flesh-color; anthers violet.—Dry woods. Nova Scotia west to the Pacific. June. (Eu.) 10. MONESES, Salisb. One-floweeed Pybola. Petals 5, widely spreading, orbicular. Filaments awl-shaped, naked; anthers as in Pyrola, but conspicuously 2-horned. Style straight, exserted; stigma large, peltate, with 5 narrow and con- spicuous radiating lobes. Valves of the capsule naked. (Flowers occasionally tetramerous.) Scape 1-flowered. Otherwise as Pyrola; intermediate between it and Chimaphila. (Name formed of fiovog, single, and ^ffif, delight, from the pretty solitary flower.) 1. M. graudiflora, Salisb. A small perennial, with the rounded and veiny serrate thin leaves (6-9" long) clustered at th
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